Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Encyclopedias
Domestic Relations

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Domesday Book
Next Entry
Domfront
Resource Toolbox

A term used to express the legal relations subsisting between the various units that comprise the family or domestic group. Those units which go to build. up the domestic structure of modern society are parent, child, husband, wife, master and servant. The law which deals with the various relations subsisting between them is made up largely of the law of agency, of contract and of tort. See Husband And Wife; Master And Servant; Law relating to children; Infant.

Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Domestic Relations'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​d/domestic-relations.html. 1910.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile